Panel – Redefining the Diplomatic Mission: Implications for Theory and Practice

Friday, February 19, 2010:

International Studies Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, February 17-20, 2010.
FD55: Friday 3:45 PM ‐ 5:30 PM

Panel – Redefining the Diplomatic Mission: Implications for Theory and Practice

Sponsor(s): Diplomatic Studies

Chair: Kathy R. Fitzpatrick, Quinnipiac University

Disc.: Daryl Copeland, Foreign and International Affairs, Canada
A European Foreign Service: Turning Diplomacy Inside‐Out

Mai’a Keapuolani Davis Cross: University of Southern California

Multilateral Cooperation or Competitive Identity? Public Diplomacy’s Strategic Challenge

Ali R. Fisher: Mappa Mundi Consulting

U.S. Public Diplomacy in Romania: New Strategies for a New Time

Antoneta Vanc: Quinnipiac University

Old Habits Die Hard? U.S. Trade Diplomacy and the New Diplomatic Studies Paradigm

Geoffrey Allen Pigman: Bennington College
Brendan Vickers: Institute for Global Dialogue

Diplomatic Amateurs or Qualified Professionals? Profiling the American Ambassador

Kathy R. Fitzpatrick: Quinnipiac University

Roundtable – Guerrilla Diplomacy: Revolution in Diplomatic Affairs – International Studies Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Wednesday, February 17, 2010:

International Studies Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, February 17-20, 2010.
WB53: Wednesday 10:30 AM ‐ 12:15 PM

Roundtable – Guerrilla Diplomacy: Revolution in Diplomatic Affairs

Sponsor(s): Diplomatic Studies

Chair Nabil Ayad, University of Westminster

Disc. Daryl Copeland, Foreign and International Affairs, Canada

Participant Geoffrey Allen Pigman, Bennington College
Participant Kathy R. Fitzpatrick, Quinnipiac University
Participant Ali R. Fisher, Mappa Mundi Consulting
Participant Evan H. Potter, University of Ottawa
Participant Jan Melissen, Clingendael
Participant R. S. Zaharna, American University
Participant James Der Derian, Brown University
Participant Nicholas J. Cull, University of Southern California

Guerrilla Diplomacy Panel Discussion with Daryl Copeland 1:00-2:30pm – Munk Centre for International Studies – Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies

Join Daryl Copeland, author of Guerrilla Diplomacy and Senior Fellow at the Munk Centre and PCS students Lauren Alexiuk and Anila Akram for a discussion of what might be done to better equip diplomacy, the foreign ministry and the Foreign Service to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

For anyone with a penchant for negotiation and compromise, and a general preference for talking over fighting and dialogue over diktat, diplomacy should matter. But diplomacy has been sidelined and is facing a crisis of relevance and effectiveness. This may be attributed in large part to its inability to adapt to the exigencies of globalization, that totalizing historical force which continues to condition, if not determine outcomes across a broad range of human activity. A rising tide of violence, inequality, and unaddressed threats provides powerful testament not only to the socialization of globalization’s costs and the privatization of its benefits, but to the abject failure of diplomacy to engage remedially.

Mr. Copeland grew up in downtown Toronto, and received his formal education at the University of Western Ontario (Gold Medal, Political science; Chancellor’s Prize, Social Sciences) and the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (Canada Council Special MA Scholarship). He has spent years backpacking on six continents, and enjoys travel, photography, arts and the outdoors. Mr. Copeland serves as a peer reviewer for Canadian Foreign Policy, the International Journal, and The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, and is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Place Branding and Public Diplomacy.

From 1981 to 2009 Mr. Copeland served as a Canadian diplomat with postings in Thailand, Ethiopia, New Zealand and Malaysia. Among his positions at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) in Ottawa, Mr. Copeland has worked as Deputy Director for International Communications; Director for Southeast Asia; Senior Advisor, Public Diplomacy; Director of Strategic Communications Services; and, Senior Advisor, Strategic Policy and Planning and spent three years as Director at the Canadian Institute of International Affairs.

Daryl Copeland at University of Victoria – December 2, 2009

Daryl Copeland will speak at 3:30 PM on 2 December in MacLauren D281 – University of Victoria.

Under the sponsorship of the university branch of the Canadian International Council and Centre for Global Studies to present his book:

Guerrilla Diplomacy:
Rethinking International Relations

Daryl Copeland is an independent and critical thinker on Canadian foreign policy. He is on academic leave from the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and seconded to the University of Southern California’s Center on Public Diplomacy and the University of Toronto’s Munk Centre for International Studies. A bio-sketch can be found here.

In his book Daryl Copeland argues that diplomacy, re-tooled for the 21st century, must displace defence at the centre of international policy.

The introductory overview is available for download.

Guerrilla Diplomacy – Ottawa Book Launch and Reception – Monday, June 29

Ottawa release of Daryl Copeland’s Guerrilla Diplomacy: Rethinking International Relations

Organized in association with Carleton University’s Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Canadian Foreign Policy,  McGill-Queen’s University Press and Lynne Rienner Publishers.

Please come to the book launch and reception on Monday June 29th, 6:00 – 7:30PM at:

Nicholas Hoare Books
419 Sussex Drive
Ottawa, On., Can
K1N 9M6

RSVP – 613 562-2665

Contact is David Dollin, Manager.

This is a joint venture with Evan Potter, who is launching his new book Branding Canada (www.evanpotter.ca).